{"id":1184,"date":"2025-07-22T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:59:45","slug":"thunderbolts-and-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/thunderbolts-and-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolts and lightning…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m tired – I didn’t sleep well last night because the thunderstorm was loud and close enough that the house would rattle. And wake me up. And startle the cats. I think it finally blew over sometime between 3-4AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After seeing the play on Sunday, I had the hankering to watch the 1989 movie version with Kenneth Branagh<\/a>, but had absolutely no luck finding it streaming anywhere. I did, however, discover a bunch of other versions, several of which I have not seen yet. I know that times are changing, and the younger generations tend to need hooks in content to grab their attention, but I’m not pleased with the trend of modernizing Shakespearean plays. I can tolerate a few anachronisms in costuming, but seeing the whole thing “modernized” bothers me. I stumbled on one version that had costumed like the modern military and dubstep music – not my cup of tea when I want to see Shakespeare. The 1996 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet<\/a> was novel and interesting, but this is a step too far for me. Frankly, I’d walk out of a performance like that, even if the star was the dude who played Jon Snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, lots to do and I still need to prep to travel for my friends wedding this upcoming weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interesting Tidbits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Song of the Day: Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a> by Queen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grinning Deputy Bashes Bunny<\/a> – “A New Mexico police officer laughed as he fatally injured a tiny baby rabbit by throwing it at his vehicle, after threatening his colleague with a Taser.” Back the blue, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reforms Announced After Doctors Moved To Harvest Organs Of Living People<\/a> – “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched an overhaul of the nation\u2019s organ transplant system Monday amid reports of surgeons attempting to harvest organs from patients who were still alive.” Honestly, this is one of the reasons I won’t be an organ donor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m tired – I didn’t sleep well last night because the thunderstorm was loud and close enough that the house would rattle. And wake me up. And startle the cats. I think it finally blew over sometime between 3-4AM. After seeing the play on Sunday, I had the hankering to watch the 1989 movie version […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}